Re: Why authors are using Transitional (and target="_blank")

Thomas,

> How many use Transitional because they want/have to use the target=
> attribute with a value other than _blank?

Excellent question.  Perhaps that's the other 50% of the votes?  At
least one person mentions _top in there.

I also think the poll should include more than 10 total votes :)

As for naming a view - that would be hard given the existing footprint
of using _blank everywhere.  I'm not sure why _blank was not made
conforming, can anyone give the history?

Regards,
Jeff


On 2/13/08, Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 13, 2008 7:00 PM, Simon Pieters wrote:
> >
> > I made a straw poll about why people are using Transitional:
> >
> >    http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3722104
> >
> > Judging from that poll, common reasons are:
> >
> >    * Desire to use target="_blank".
> >    * Other people's software emit stuff that only validates as
> >      Transitional (target="_blank" in particular).
>
> How many use Transitional because they want/have to use the target=
> attribute with a value other than _blank?
>
> > For these reasons, I'd suggest to make target="_blank" conforming.
>
> Is coining names that hard?
>
> e.g. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Thomas+Broyer"
> target="me_on_google">Search for me on Google</a>
> or <a href="http://bigtits.example.com" target="wordpress_12">Maybe my
> site can interest you</a>
>
> --
> Thomas Broyer
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:59:45 UTC